Musical score display apparatus

Abstract

A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to match the displayed note data, a position where character strings of the lyric data overlap is detected, and the display range of the note data and the lyric data which contains the detected position is extended. Further, the character strings of the lyric data are scrolled within the display range of the lyric data which contains the detected position. Thus, even when the character stings of the lyric overlap on the displayed musical score, a user can read the lyric without any special operation.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a musical score display apparatus, and more particularly to a musical score display apparatus for displaying performance data with lyric data in the form of a musical score.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Conventionally, there has been known an apparatus capable of displaying a musical score of attractive appearance on the basis of performance data such as MIDI data (see, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (kokai) No. 11-327427). In such apparatus, when musical score display data are generated from performance data, the display width of each measure (bar) and the allocation of time positions of successive notes (intervals of notes) in each measure are controlled such that notes corresponding to events of different timings are not displayed in an overlapping condition.[0005]Further, some performance data of such a type include event data (lyric data) represent...

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[0008]In view of the foregoing, an object of the present invention is to provide a musical score display apparatus which can neatly display lyrics in addition to notes when the apparatus displays a musical score on the basis of performance data including not only note data but also lyric data.

[0014]The present invention further provides a musical score display apparatus comprising: a section divider for dividing a displayed musical score into a plurality of sections in a time-axis direction when sections of a lyric represented by lyric data contained in performance data are displayed on the musical score; a section detector for detecting a section, among the plurality of sections, which section includes lyric data sets which would produce an overlapping display of lyric sections; a lyric display data creator for creating, for the lyric data contained in the detected section, lyric display data which eliminate the overlapping of the lyric sections; a note display data creator for creating, for note data contained in the performance data, note display data on the basis of the created lyric display data, the note display data being used to display notes while relating the same to the corresponding lyric sections; and a musical score display portion for displaying the lyric sections and the notes on the musical score in a related manner, by making use of the created lyric display data and note display data, in such a manner that the lyric sections do not overlap.

[0016]By virtue of these and other features of the present invention, in the case where a section in which lyric sections overlap is detected when lyric sections and notes are displayed in a related manner, display of the lyric sections and the notes is controlled in such a manner that the lyric sections in the detected section do not overlap. Accordingly, even when the character strings of the lyric sections overlap on the displayed musical score, a user can read the lyric sections without any special operation. Further, the lyric sections and notes can be displayed with good appearance.

[0019]By virtue of the above feature of the present invention, in the case where overlapping lyric sections are detected when lyric sections and notes are displayed in a related manner, the detected lyric sections are scroll-displayed. Accordingly, even when the character strings of the lyric sections overlap on the displayed musical score, a user can read the lyric sections without any special operation. Further, the user can read the character strings of all the lyric sections without affecting the layout of the notes on the displayed musical score.

Problems solved by technology

However, in the above-described conventional apparatus, although, for note display, the width of each measure and intervals of notes are adjusted so as to prevent notes of different timings from overlapping on a displayed musical score, the adjustment is performed only for the purpose of eliminating overlap of notes, and overlap of lyrics is not taken into consideration.

Therefore, in a location where the density of notes is low from the beginning, and corresponding lyrics are displayed without overlap, the character intervals of the lyrics are increased excessively, which makes reading of the lyrics difficult.

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